From: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org (wanderer-digest) To: wanderer-digest@smoe.org Subject: wanderer-digest V2 #45 Reply-To: wanderer@smoe.org Sender: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk wanderer-digest Thursday, May 23 2002 Volume 02 : Number 045 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: BOUNCE wanderer@smoe.org: Non-member submission from [Michael Paz ] [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 07:33:30 -0400 From: Susan McNamara Subject: Fwd: BOUNCE wanderer@smoe.org: Non-member submission from [Michael Paz ] - --- begin forwarded text From: Michael Paz To: Kate Bennett , "Wanderer@Smoe. Org" , Joni Digest Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Kate Damn I wish I could have been there with you. That damn Kakki is SUCH a good hostess she always keeps me too busy to ever make it out there. But the next time I go I want to make it out there to meet him too and hang out. Not only do I wanna see those guitars I want to play them. Love Paz on 5/16/02 10:23 PM, Kate Bennett at kate@katebennett.com wrote: > Had the wonderful pleasure of meeting Fred Walecki at Westwood Music today. > What a sweetheart of a guy!!!! > > (he's the one who helped ..design?..Joni's VG-8 so she could tour again. He > seems to be in great health, very energetic, incredibly knowledgeable & > soooo friendly... > > he pointed up to where he said he had a bunch of Joni's guitars for sale > (1,2, 3, 4 numbered in cases...man, did he have my number! not cheap he > said...so, I didn't even want to see them because I would have been in deep > deep trouble- Paz I know you know the kind)... > > we talked a bit about Joni, her tunings, the website & the AMAZING people > who figured out her tunings!!!! & how she told him that having her VG-8 was > like having a whole new palette... > > what a nice guy, no wonder everyone did that benefit for him...Kakki, have > you met him?...I can imagine the two of you chatting away for hours!!!! > > Although I didn't buy anything (yet) he walked me to my car (I was lugging 3 > guitars) & talked about so many wonderful sound technicalities...I think he > is really some kind of genius...on that same level of niceness (for lack of > a better word) as Graham Nash ... I just want to buy something from him > because he's such a cool guy! - --- end forwarded text ------------------------------ End of wanderer-digest V2 #45 *****************************